Carl DiSalvo will be speaking at the kick-off event for the Nerds for Nature, Thursday, February 21, in San Francisco. Nerds for Nature is a new organization developed to "bring together technologists and environmental professionals to collaboratively build awesome tools to understand, protect, and revive the natural world." (http://nerdsfornature.org/) 

DiSalvo will also participate in Eco-Hack SF, February 22 & 23, in San Francisco. Eco-Hack SF is a two-day event "about using technology to improve and better understand our natural environment." (http://ecohacksf.org/). Participation in the Eco-Hack is part of ongoing research that DiSalvo and DM PhD student Thomas Lodato are doing that investigates hackathons as ad-hoc design events.